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Patented Oct. 10, 1899;-

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(Application filed Apr. 4, 1899.)

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JAMES F. DUNN, OF'SALT LAKE crrv, UTAH.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,749, dated October10, 1899.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES F. DUNN, of Salt Lake City, in the county ofSalt Lake and State of Utah, haveinvented new and useful Improvements inRailway-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a construction involving atimber'cap for protecting the ends of the draft-timbers in railway-cars,by which means to prevent the timbers from being. chafed and split, towhich action they are especially liable during. the use of the car, theinvention also involvinga peculiar arrangement of these caps with respect to the draft-timbers and sills of the car, so that an exceedinglydurable and effective structure is attained.

This specification is the disclosure of two forms of the invention,while the claims define the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formin g a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional viewon'the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of aslightly-modified form of the invention.

The form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2 has a cap with planetop, side, and bottom walls 4 andwith a convex front wall 5, which isrun into the side walls, thus avoid- The cap thus constructed is fittedover the front ends of the draft-timbers 6 and secured thereto bytransverse bolts 7, passing through the draft-timhers and through theside walls of the cap. The bottom wall of the cap (shown in Figs. 1 and2) is providedwith a rearward extension 8, as shown in Fig. 2, which islet into the lower face of the corresponding draft-timber 6 and throughwhich passes a bolt 9, that also passes through the draft-timber andthrough the sill of the car. By constructing the cap with a convex frontend sharp vertical edges hers, are further secured in place by means ofbolts 10 and 11, the forward bolts passing through the sill and beingengaged at their lower ends with a transverse bar 12, which Applicationfiled April 4:, 1899. Serial No. 711,651 (No model.)

bears against the bottom walls of the caps, and the latter bolts beingpassed through the sill and draft-timbers and engaged with theextremities of the bar 12. By means of the bolts 10 and 11 the bar 12 isdrawn up forcibly against the bottom walls of the caps, and all of theparts are thus secured in rigid connection. The parts 10 and 12 alsoform a means for supporting the draw-head of the car.

Fig. 3 illustrates a slightly-modified form of the invention, in whichthe top wall of the cap is provided with an extension 8, similar to theextension 8 and adapted to lie on top of the draft-timber in the samemanner as the extension 8 lies on the bottom thereof.

The timber-capthus constructed may be produced at less cost than thosenow in use, and its extreme simplicity renders it durable and in everyway efiective.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A timber-cap, having plane top, bottom and sidewalls, a convex front wall joined to the top, bottom and side walls andrunning into the side walls, and an extension projected out rearwardlyfrom one wall of the cap, the cap serving to embrace the end of thetimber, to protect the same from splitting and chafing.

2. A timber-cap, having top, bottom and side walls, a convex front walljoined thereto and running into the side walls, and an extensionprojected out rearwardly from one wall of the cap.

3. In a railway-car, the combination with the end sill anddraft-timbers, of metallic caps fitting over the ends of thedraft-timbers, the caps comprising front, side, top and bottom walls, abolt extending horizontally through the side walls of each cap andthrough the adjacent draft-timber, a bar bearing beneath the caps andextending transversely of the draft timbers, bolts passed verticallythrough the draft-timbers and end sill and I engaging the bar, andadditional bolts passed vertically through the bar and-sill inside ofthe draft-timbers and respectively adjacent thereto.

